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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 9146324" data-attributes="member: 2012">There are spells in the game that will protect the PCs from the effects of reentering the Labyrinth of Lost Ghosts under the Gate of Scales.[Spoiler="Reminder about the Labyrinth"]Back in the entryway, Akos checks the door and knows the altered time has been sealed away. The glowing script on the double doors weren't visible before but are now unmistakable. Akos can see that along the top of one of the doors is writing, in an old form of Ticin, that warns of the Labyrinth of Lost Ghosts that lies beyond. A special phrase is required to reopen the doors but it is also written on the center of both doors but the script appears to be Ticin. But as Akos reads it, it changes to Sylvan, then Váryar, and finally Cliffspeak. Then it settles on Sylvan and doesn't change again for him."Into Aphogorin's twisted corridors I want to brave, To seek more than an early grave."Aphogorin... where has Akos heard that name before? That name makes the hairs on the back of the Loremaster's neck stand up.[OOC]Knowledge checks can be made to determine the identity of Aphogorin and the origins of the Plane of Lost Ghosts. That will be Knowledge (local) and Knowledge (the planes). Knowledge (arcana) is also helpful when dealing with arcane symbols and cryptic phrases.[/OOC][/Spoiler]Here is a link to your <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/kulan-knightfalls-crisis-in-bluffside-game-ic.667146/page-36#post-8413109" target="_blank">post</a> with your dice rolls. I'm posting my response here without a spoiler, but I've altered it with some of my homebrewed changes.[HR][/HR]Akos has never heard of the Labyrinth of Lost Ghosts, but he's certain that the phrase on the doors must be spoken out loud for the double doors to open again. The script is obviously designed to appear to the reader in any of the languages the viewer can speak or understands. That would have allowed Phelix, the deaf-mute knight, and and anyone else to enter the labyrinth easily. A portal key won't be required to get back in.Interestingly, the script does not detect as magical if/when Akos uses detect magic to view the door, but considering the name on the door, the Loremaster isn't surprised. Aphogorin was a powerful telepathic psion who lived in the region over 1,300 years ago. (The current year is 1476 BR.) He was a shapeshifter of unknown origin and was originally from another land known as Margoth-Nal, a distant continent (known by most scholars as the Fallenlands) far to the west beyond the Sea of Tombé.If Aphogorin created the labyrinth then perhaps he was a devotee of the Ancients. Or after his death (and there is no evidence that Akos has ever seen that says that Aphogorin is still alive), followers of the Ancients found the labyrinth and remolded the portal room to fit their own purposes. Regardless, the labyrinth will be a very dangerous place full of puzzles and traps.Aphogorin was sometime known as the Oracular Man and is believed to have some sort of connection to an infamous lich known as Khakaron who built the Crimson Tomb of Dread, which is believed to be somewhere in the Red Mountains northeast of Bluffside. Depending on the source, Aphogorin was either Khakaron's rival or his ally. They were not the same being.There is some evidence that Aphogorin might also have been a cleric of Zogath. Very few scholars in the western lands of Kanpur have ever heard of Zogath but Akos has heard of the Elderbrood god.[HR][/HR][USER=15882]@TaranTheWanderer[/USER], you can read this <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/kulan-knightfalls-crisis-in-bluffside-game-ooc.666962/page-82#post-8975903" target="_blank">summary</a> that I created and posted for Aust Thale back in March. It details what happened after the PCs left the labyrinth.EDIT: Did I point out that summary to you already?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":unsure:" title="Unsure    :unsure:"  data-smilie="24"data-shortname=":unsure:" /></blockquote>

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